ANN ARBOR—This year’s Henry Russel Lecture at the University of Michigan will be delivered Tuesday (March 9) by Jack E. Dixon, the Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry. The annual lectureship is the highest honor the University gives to a senior faculty member.

Dixon’s lecture, titled “Playing Tag with Death: A Biochemist’s View of Cancer, The Plague and Signal Transduction,” will begin at 2 p.m. in Rackham Amphitheater. The lecture is open to the public.

Preceding the lecture, this year’s Henry Russel Award, given annually to junior faculty members, will be presented to Thomas C. Hales, associate professor of mathematics; Alexander J. Ninfa, associate professor of biological chemistry; Ann Marie Sastry, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Both the Henry Russel Lecture and Henry Russel Award were established in 1925 with a bequest from Henry Russel of Detroit, who received three degrees from U-M.